Marijuana

What will the Skymint operation on Coolidge Road be like, and what is more generally the status of retail marijuana sales in East Lansing? ELi’s Chris Gray reports.

When the work of our reporters gets ripped off, the local news economy is ultimately harmed. Our publisher Alice Dreger explains.

“My clients didn’t need to open a crumby old beer store,” ABCD Properties' lawyer told the Zoning Board of Appeals. Chris Gray reports for ELi on what happened with the marijuana company’s request.

This ELi guide is designed to assist voters as they approach the November 2019 East Lansing City Council ballot.

ELi's Alice Dreger brings voters important information about East Lansing's land sale ballot question. Voters will decide the matter on November 5.

Our publisher explains why it can still be pretty hard to "follow the money" in East Lansing.

Monday's East Lansing Council candidate debate changed how some are thinking about voting. ASMSU hosted the two-hour event and personalized some questions for the six candidates.

Marijuana and alcohol sales, a housing war chest for Chesterfield Hills, a new sorority for Cedar Village – decisions on all this and more at last night’s City Council meeting.

What's on tonight's agenda? Royal Vlahakis, the sale of pot and of booze, and decisions about a lot of student housing projects in East Lansing. ELi's Alice Dreger gives you a run-down.

The deal has officially closed, the City revealed yesterday. But numerous questions remain about the eBay sale of public property on Merritt Road to marijuana speculators.

Aaron Stephens is tired of being asked how Mark Meadows feels about an item Stephens wants put on a Council business agenda. As a result, Council may change its operating procedures tonight.

The lawyer for the eBay auction winner says the $12 million listing is aimed at "investors and non-traditional financiers." Documents obtained via FOIA suggest interest in a quick flip, and possibly a lower cost for environmental cleanup than the City has suggested.

The marijuana industry player who just bought East Lansing's public land on Merritt Road for $1 million via an eBay auction is now listing it for sale for $12 million. ELi's Alice Dreger reports on what we know.

East Lansing Council members Erik Altmann, Shanna Draheim, and Mark Meadows said that in hindsight the City should have advertised the eBay auction of the million-dollar public property on Merritt Road. But they think the taxpayers have gotten a great deal.

More billboards in East Lansing, more sorority houses, more alcohol sales downtown, more revenue for the City, more coffee near the Amtrak station, more rental licenses: all that plus the eBay land deal, depending on how the votes go. ELi brings you up to speed.